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In November Lorquí again the usual one year campaign to prevent breast cancer focuses on women of the town that each year organizes the local Health Department, in collaboration with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and the Ministry of Health, Regional Government.

Thus, the past 12, 13 and 16 November, a mobile unit is installed next to City Hall ilorcitano for mammograms to 160 women between 50 and 69 years included in this program and had received the relevant summons by mail at home.

As a rule, these tests must have had a thorough medical examination, including the delivery of mammography, to determine their state of health in order to act in time in case of illness.

Now biannual

Notably, from this year, this campaign will be done on an annual basis (previously carried out every two years) and that the participation rate among women Lorquí the biennium 2007-08 was 81'12% for above the regional average (71'5%).

"The objectives of screening is to reduce mortality from this disease and improve quality of life of women who suffer," says the councilor of the area, Juana María Marín, who hopes to "repeat the high turnout" shown by the neighbors past the town.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorquí